and Shuri Castle Ruins was registered as World Heritage Site in 2000. The park was fully opened in February 2019, but the fire broke out in the main hall late at night on October 31st of the same year. It burned for 11 hours destroying nine buildings and about 400 treasures from the Ryukyu Dynasty. It is said that the city fire department previously pointed out flaw in disaster prevention. According to the official report, the cause of the fire is unknown.

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This work is a close-up of a burnt-out red tiles on the roof of Shuri Castle. It is not a black and white picture, and the soot keeps its original color.

There is a seriousness that seems to leave something behind to us and be like the words of a farewell.

In fact, the fire site has been cleaned up for rebuilding and we hardly have opportunity to see these tiles.

What do you talk to it?

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The transience of things with a shape and foolishness of human beings may come to you.

Something that will not succumb to the flames may rise up.

Some may reflect in secret, and others may love it again.

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We need the attitude to look at what we have lost, otherwise we will never regain the beautiful red color.